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Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Story of the Hagstrom James L D'Aquisto Guitar (By Ron Chapman)
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6 comments :
Very interesting stuff. D'Aquisto with his then apprentice Roger Borys (now a revered luthier in his own right) developed a laminate archtop which Jim Hall adopted. I think there are only a handful in existence. Jim Hall used that D'Aquisto guitar exclusively for years. It has a gorgeous sound (a lot to do with JH though). The Gibson 175 is possibly the most used jazz guitar and it's a laminate top. In recent years other luthiers have developed boutique laminate instruments - Manzer, Sadowsky, Buscarino and others. There is a school of thought that a high end laminate top instrument gives a sweeter, more balanced tone and is more consistent, guitar to guitar, than carved top guitars which may have a bigger sound, more bass but sometimes more brittle high end and more inconsistency guitar to guitar.
Roly
Roly is quite correct about the guitars that Jimmy D'Aquisto built, there must be at least fifty out there in the wide world somewhere. I mentioned in the Hagstrom article that he shipped fifty unfinished guitar bodies over to New York. Then fifty guitar necks intended for them were lost or stolen during the shipping. I have seen one of the guitars with the hagstrom body but with Jimmy D'Aquistos own manufactured neck. It was $30,000!!!
While looking for some old musician friends I was directed to the Lance-bebopspokenhere site where the first thing I saw was your 'info on Tommy Henderson' blog which I replied to.
Looking for your e.mail address I found loads of interesting info. on you and your guitars.
I didn't know Ken Morrell had died because we had lost touch over the years, but Ron Studholme (drummer and vocalist) remained a very good friend until his death in 1995.
Willard Scott, another good friend said he saw you playing in the Metro Centre. I was telling him about your excellent speakers when you were in Savilles music shop - pity its not there now!
I must thank you for your enquiry, cos it's started quite a few memories from old musician friends.
Regards
Tommy Henderson
i have a Hagstrom Jimmy D'Aquisto for sale if anyone is interested south cheshire UK .
Lee
photos here
http://s1367.photobucket.com/user/wardlephotographic/library/guitars?sort=3&page=1
We own a music store in the US. We have one of these in our store right now! It's the natural Jimmy Hagstrom. Very beautiful guitars! It's for sale if anyone is interested. Our Facebook page is Guitar Pros LLC. Very interesting. Thanks for the info.
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